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Friday, 18 October 2013

Usually, at this time of the year I'm already "knee deep" in Christmas crafting and sewing. This year it seem inspiration is eluding me, although I've been looking through books, magazines and trawling the Internet and in particular Pinterest. Nothing really takes my fancy.

So instead I've been rearranging my fabric stash. And not just rearranging, no I've folded each piece of fabric (only those bigger than 1/2 yard/meter) over Comic Backing boards as they are just the perfect size. Now they look like mini bolts and are so much easier to see and take out. I've bought 1'000 pieces of boards and so far I've used up 500. I can't believe how much fabric I've got. It really was a bit of a wake up call to STOP buying fabric!!!

This is how far I got when I ran out of steam. I still have to do the lowest shelf (mostly Japanese fabrics), not to mention all the fabrics I've stowed away in various other places. I will leave my fat quarters for the moment as they are more or less organized in my sock drawers. Here's just a small selection. Doesn't it look nice? Sometimes I catch myself not wanting to use these fabrics, as then it wouldn't looks so nice anymore. Go figure!!!

My big pieces of fabric (more than 3 yards/meters) for borders and backings I will probably fold over some longer card board pieces which I will cut myself, like I did for my linens (see middle shelf).

I also did a little bit of sewing. Here's my sixth Camelot block.

And here they are all together. I haven't decided on a background yet, but somehow I quite like the Aubergine which is actually my foot stool on the balcony. Well, I have time to decide on that as I have 10 more blocks to make first.

Saturday, 12 October 2013

I have submitted a quilt at this week's Quilter's Show & Tell The theme is Modern Geometric Quilts and I've entered my "Outside the box" quilt. Click here if you want to see all the quilts entered and vote (you can vote for up to four quilts). There's also a give away if you leave a comment answering “What’s your favourite kind of pie?” (on the Quilter's Gallery Blog).

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After living abroad for almost 30 years we have recently moved back to our native Switzerland. During our years in Australia, Taiwan, Indonesia, China and Singapore quilting and crafting have been a "life line" as it has given me the opportunity to connect with like minded women and I have made a lot of lasting friendships with people from all around the world.